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Biodiversity
SpaceSmithsonian scientists plan ‘doomsday vault’ to protect Earth’s biodiversity on the Moon
New scientific research proposes a plan to safeguard Earth’s imperiled biodiversity by cryogenically preserving biological material on the moon.
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